Some iguanas have a third eye that
helps regulate how long they expose themselves to the sun.

third eye nounA sensory structure capable of light
reception, located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles.
Also called pineal eye.

"The third eye had to be re-opened if we were to get out
of the maze,"
Mini said, "but since we no longer remembered that we had that ajna faculty,
the eye of discernment, we could not go about seeking techniques for re-opening
it. SOMETHING OUTSIDE HAD TO ENTER, something which we ourselves would
be unable to build."

"So we didn't all fall into
the maze," Fat said.

"No," Mini said. "And those
that stayed outside, in other star systems, reported back to Albemuth that we
had done this thing to ourselves... thus VALIS was constructed to rescue us.
This is an irreal world. You realize that, I'm sure, VALIS made you realize
that. We are in a living maze and not in a world at all."

There was silence as we considered this.

"And what happens when we
get outside the maze?" Kevin said.

"We're freed from space and time,"
Mini said. "Space and time are the binding, controlling conditions
of the maze - its power."

Fat and I glanced at each other. It dovetailed
with our own speculations - speculations engineered by VALIS.

Third Eye - _Heaven Transmission_written and produced by Ollie Olsen & Simon
Polinski also from _Dance Of Creation_ CD PSY-010

Third Eye - _Sea Of Tranquility_ (reference to
the moon)written by Ollie Olsenproduced by Ollie Olsen & Simon Polinski also from _Ancient Future_ CD PSY-001

Third Eye - _Towards The Still
Point_ MP3 (160k)written and produced by Ollie Olsen & Simon Polinskiengineered by Simon Polinski also from _Dance
Of Creation_ CD PSY-010

In the UFO
phenomenon, occult teaching about the "third eye" appears to be reflected in
certain reports of encounters with "extraterrestrials." Ancient Egyptian
teachings about the third eye describe it as a characteristic of Maat, goddess
of truth. Later the third eye became an attribute of the warrior deity
and Sun god Horus.
Hinduistic teachings describe the third eye as a "chakra,"
or point of energy, on the forehead. In the modern new age movement, the
third eye is known as the Ajra Center. These teachings are reminiscent
of descriptions of aliens
in UFO encounters having a third eye or some similar feature in the middle of
their foreheads. In some cases, alleged UFO abductees subjected to hypnotic
regression may "recall" having a third eye emplaced somehow in the middle of
the forehead.

Serotonin is a normal, necessary
chemical transmitter of electrical impulses across the synapses (the gaps between
nerve cell bodies). It is intriguing to find that certain hallucinogens
have the same chemical skeletons as serotonin. Serotonin is one of the four
main neurohumors or neurotransmitters in higher vertebrate nervous systems.
The serotonin is transported via the bloodstream to the nerve cells throughout
the body, but most especially in the neurons of the brain. Here they accumulate
in the their minutest molecular form. The molecule serotonin is utilized by
the nerve cells for the complete execution of electrical impulses across the
synaptic gap (which is the micro-gap between every connection of every nerve
cell in the entire nervous system). The impulses comes along the nerve cell
going through the electro-chemical processes with the ionic forms of calcium
and potassium (the two vitals of the nervous system) until they reach the terminal
end of the cell's dendrites.
Upon reaching the end of the electrical impulse is translated into the neurochemical serotonin.
This is then "squeezed" out into intercellular space only to connect and meet
the other side which is the beginning of the next nerve soma
(lining of the nerve cell). Few molecules can penetrate what is known
in biology as the "blood brain barrier". Those that do go directly to the neuron.
After that it becomes a matter of their ability to imitate one of the neurotransmitters.
Our neurons have a safety device for this type of situation.

The neurotransmitters have a unique molecular shape and
can only fit in a specific slot on the synaptic surface. Mind-altering drugs
all operate on mimicking one of the neurotransmitters. LSD
happens to be one of the more famous antagonists. It not only penetrates the
blood brain barrier but slips slyly into the transmission site inside the nerve
cells themselves. It can mimic serotonin to the point where the body thinks
its serotonin and consequently shoots it across the synaptic gap. When LSD reaches
the other side it is accepted but the LSD doesn't carry the message any further.
The impulse of electricity
is redirected down less familiar pathways, pathways which have not been highly
conditioned. Specifically LSD affects the oldest parts of the brain
first (e.g. upper end of the spinal cord, medulla oblongata, cerebrum, pineal
gland and hypothalamus region) then the bloodstream takes it forward into the immediate
back brain (location of sight interpretation) up through the area of hearing,
the cerebellum, other sense interpretive centers, and the motor areas.

Using radioactive molecules
traced with LSD, science has been able to follow the course of LSD through
the various channels and avenues of the body. It has been found that
after selecting certain areas of the various parts of the brain it then
migrates to sections with fewer imprints, for instance the right of the
hemisphere, the so-called creative center. By redirecting consciousness,
as it were, into the unimprinted areas of the cortex, one hypothetically
experiences the world anew, hence the variety of interpretations which
arise upon questioning psychedelic
voyagers about their "trip". Because of LSD's antagonistic effect on serotonin
and the pineal gland itself, it would seem quite likely there is a chemical
relationship between mental illness and deficiencies of serotonin. But
intravenous doses have been administered to humans with no psychedelic
effects noted. Melatonin itself has the same indole structure as
LSD. Interesting indeed!